Minighid Skala Potamia, Thassos Island, Greece

1. Beaches and the sea

Skala Potamia is a quiet resort. Early in the morning you can see tourists - photographers on the seashore to take pictures, to film sunrise. It is really fascinating! I'm sorry I'm not an ace photographer to be able to convince you from pictures alone. Then, at the usual wake up time, some movement through the markets and studio courtyards as people are preparing breakfast, coffee etc. There are hotels, but these were not our target, so we skip it. Then they start to fill up beaches. All developed beaches have sun loungers and umbrellas. If some small stretches of beach are hotels, others are tavernas or bars. It makes for an interesting combination. I don't know if it's like this at the peak of the season, but I'll tell you how we found the sun lounger business. In our 6 days at the beach, we went 3 times to one place, 3 times to another beach, both to the southern end of the resort, near the harbor, where the beach is also barking. The beaches have no names. Sunbeds have no rental rates!!!! They had instead ""an invitation"" to consume something from the taverna or bar x or y. Every day I took something, at first more shy, then I got courage. Why did I get courage to order? Two somewhat contradictory answers, but both correct:

-three times NO ONE asked us for money when we sat on the sun loungers, when we ordered the drinks, when we got them, or later on

On the beaches there was a dry Asian woman offering massages, a Greek with some big doughnuts, and an African with some moats or laces that I don't know what they symbolized and what they were used for, nor that I was interested.

Throughout this southern perimeter of beaches, we encountered a extra fine sand yes small water to mal about 50 meters away, ideal for families with small children and dads like me.

Along the sandy beaches there was a mainly unpaved road, parallel to the sea, along which were inserted Greek tavernsbars, mini-hotels.

2. Apuslul, Folklore Museum, walks

In the evening you could watch sunsetto film or admire the sun hiding behind the mountain peak. Ah! I forgot to tell you that the island of Thassos is a mountainous island, in the middle of which is a ridge that reaches altitudes of over 1100 meters. Don't laugh! If you look down from elevation 0 and you have in front of you, bring in pretty close, the 1100 meter mountain is about the same altitude difference as from Busteni to Babele in Bucegi! . The summit can be climbed in two ways: either on a path that starts from Skala Potamia in about 2 hours, or even by car but bypassing half of the island and climbing on some more difficult roads route that takes about 4 hours.

Also in the evenings they practiced lane rides on the waterfront among lovers. Or even sea trips in various small boats. From the roundabout by the harbor, near Folklore Museum, it started after 8 p.m. at intervals of about 45 minutes a minicar behind a tractor which went around the resort, starting from the main road and going back to the beach among the terraces.